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Non-bailable warrants against Thackeray, 2 others
Thane, Aug 17: A local court has issued non-bailable warrants against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and two others in a defamation suit filed against them by a police officer.
The warrants were issued as all the three accused had
remained absent on the last three dates of the hearing.
The case has been filed by a police officer who objected
to a report published in Saamna on March 23, 1997 under the
caption ‘Khakhi Varditla Kalpanath Rai’ wherein serious
allegations were levelled against cops Jaypraksh Bodhankar and the then SP Ulhas D Joshi.
Initially, when the case came up before the court for hearing two years ago, the trio had attended the proceedings and were released on bail of Rs 15,000 each.
However, subsequently they remained absent in further hearings and on last occasion their counsel was also absent. Thereupon petitioner's Counsel Prashant Panchakshari urged the court to issue non-bailable warrants against the accused.
In this case, Lok Sabha speaker and the then Chief
Minister of Maharashtra Manohar Joshi, the then Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde and former Director General of Police
of the state, Arvind Inamdar, have been cited as witnesses.
Bureau Report